Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was why Paul could affirm concerning Jesus ‘ He is our peace . ’ |
| 2 | Because I could n't countenance how you could stay under water without being asphyxiated , and yet at the same time I was incapable of comprehending the trick . |
| 3 | Clearly much would depend on whether Knott could stay with Greig but , after nightwatchman Underwood went , Knott and Snow both followed quickly , all dismissed by Daniel inside four overs . |
| 4 | These Sherlocks could stay at home and save the tax payers some money . |
| 5 | If I did n't go I could stay at home and work on the house . |
| 6 | I could stay at home and try to write a novel . |
| 7 | Perhaps next month Esquire could stay at home and have a wank . |
| 8 | What I 'd like is just a few regulars , that 'd come by appointment , like , so I could stay at home . |
| 9 | They could either follow their husbands into battle , taking their children with them , or they could stay at home , unprotected and unsupported and wait for the pillaging Parliamentarians or the papist Royalists to capture them and confiscate their property . |
| 10 | So the man needed a way of showing how wealthy he was , and he did that by having a large house , by having lots of servants , and also by dressing his wife , I mean by having a wife who did n't have to work , who could stay at home , and wore clothes to show this , so you get the beginning of incredibly impractical clothes which showed that the woman obviously did n't do any work , because it was completely impossible to do any . |
| 11 | She explained that I could stay at Heenan House until I could find somewhere suitable to live . |
| 12 | Mind , I welcomed them with open arms because it meant I could stay off school . |
| 13 | Erm , I took her at her word , I still looked for work , I did n't stop looking for work but I took it that she was happy enough me being on the dole if it meant that we could stay around Bay or Anglesey . |
| 14 | She could stay in Paris tonight , or even get a late flight back . |
| 15 | And although Gramps had left her enough money for just this purpose she 'd been hoping to live cheaply so that she could stay in Ireland for at least a month , see as much of the country as she could . |
| 16 | It was hoped that a small part of those works could stay in operation , renovating locomotives and rolling stock and that eventually a heritage museum could be set up on the site . |
| 17 | She could stay in Edinburgh for a few days longer , she said , until he was ready to go back . |
| 18 | Well you could stay in bed all day on Friday . |
| 19 | Of course , well you could stay in bed all day on Friday And I could take the kids to schools and go back |
| 20 | He ruled that Mr Egelstedt could stay in Britain , but because of the law he became a visitor and could not be called an au pair . |
| 21 | I saw Ace becoming the toast of the kings and queens of Europe , having an audience with the Pope , shaking hands with Gorbachev ; but he , for once , was more modest : ‘ I 'd like to hook up with Jacques Cousteau — we could stay in tune with the global weather patterns . ’ |
| 22 | It seemed that so far as they were concerned Meehan , guilty or innocent , could stay in Peterhead for ever . |
| 23 | Nora agreed that Constance could stay in Surrey for another month . |
| 24 | He could stay in Formula Ford for another year , or possibly move up to Vauxhall Lotus . |
| 25 | He wished he could explain about Donald . |
| 26 | We could explain to viewers that cars are now built by robots , and use computer graphics so that people will understand how they 're being totally dehumanised … ’ |
| 27 | Franca said to the doctor , ‘ Dr Hensman , perhaps you could explain to Professor Vallar that there is nothing he can do . |
| 28 | In recent years the press has had to challenge such diverse rulings as an order not to name a witness from a famous family lest publicity might interfere with her care for heroin addiction ; an order not to publish the address of a former Tory MP lest his estranged wife should discover his whereabouts and harass him , and an order that reporters should leave the court so that a distressed defendant could explain in privacy the matrimonial problems which drove her to drink before she drove her car . |
| 29 | However , if imperialism is a consequence of capitalist expansionism and not simply a colonial system of government , then some form of economic neo-imperialism could persist after independence for ex-colonies ( see Abel and Lewis , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | This method therefore had to be cancelled as the time the carrier could remain at Greenock was severely limited . |